University of Helsinki
Registration is open. Please click here to sign up for the symposium. The link will be available until 30.10.2019
The event is free of charge, this is to get an idea of numbers and dietary requirements for the catering service.
Wednesday, 6/11/2019
| time | name | title |
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration | |
| 09:00-09:10 | HCAS + Committee |
Introductory remarks by head of HCAS Introductory remarks by the committee |
| 9:10-10:00 | Kristin Ilves | Inaugural speech and welcome notes |
| 10:00-10:30 | Jo Tongue | Maritime mimesis in Polynesia, complex creative epistemologies |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Sara Keller | Knowledge on the Water: the case of technological transfers in the Western Indian port towns |
| 11:30-12:00 |
Sarah Ward
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Down by the water: evidence of Sino-Foreign Maritime Exchange at Liu Chia Harbour, Taicang |
| 12:00-12:30 | Mike Perrin | The port of Uraga |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Himanshu P. Ray | Where the Ganga meets the sea: the fluvial network of Bengal |
| 14:30-15:00 | Veronica Walker | The Mekong: seasonal migrations and the making of the Angkor empire |
| 15:00-15:30 | Ray Laurence | The Extension of Waterways: Roman Urbanism and Communications (312 BCE – 511 CE) |
| 15:30-16:00 | coffee | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Michal Schwarz | Water resources and cultural patterns in dry and Mongolian Inner Asia |
| 16:30-17:00 | Olga Kazakevich | River as the backbone of the world: a horizontal world tree of the Selkups |
The first day of the conference will be followed by a wine reception for all participants.
Thursday, 7/11/2019
| time | name | title |
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration | |
| 9:10-10:00 |
Crystal El Safadi |
Archaeological Computing-Spatial Technologies |
| 10:00-10:30 | Toni Cartes Reverté | The fishermen community in the lower Ebro (1775-1850) |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Patrik G Flammer | Molecular Archaeoparasitology – tracing people by their worms |
| 11:30-12:00 | Daniel Margolies | Submerged Lands, Navigable Waters, and Jurisdiction as a Technology of Spatial Governance in the United States |
| 12:00-12:30 | Chiara Maria Maiuro | “DARK AGES” REVISITED. A VIEW FROM HARBOUR TECHNOLOGY |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Rik Van Gijn | Riverine features? On what linguistic feature distributions can tell us about the role of river networks in socio-historical processes |
| 14:30-15:00 | Merja Salo | Orientation in nature. Cardinal points and spatial adverbs in Saami and Khanty |
| 15:00-15:30 | Olesya Khanina | Big rivers as language contact areas: a view from Siberia |
| 15:30-16:00 | coffee | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Juha Janhunen | The Amur river system as a source and route of language spreads |
| 16:30-17:00 | Ekaterina Gruzdeva | River as an anchor of spatial reference in Nivkh |
Friday, 8/11/2019
| time | name | title |
| 08:30-09:00 | Registration | |
| 9:10-10:00 |
Christoph Schäfer & K. Hofmann-von Kap-herr |
Nautical Technology – Propulsion and Performance of Roman River Barges |
| 10:00-10:30 | Stephanie Blankshein | Modelling Movement across the Divide |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Honkola Terhi & Rantanen Timo | Barriers and pathways structuring the spatial pattern of linguistic variation |
| 11:30-12:00 | Alberto Hoces | Recruitment of the Spanish Navy in America during the Late Eighteenth Century and its role in the construction of Spanish-speaking mariners’ social identity |
| 12:00-12:30 | Giacomo Tabita | Border cities of the Euphrates River on the Parthian-Roman Mesopotamia. |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-14:30 | Minna Koivikko | The last voyage, ship abandonment in their home ports |
| 14:30-15:00 | Corinna Salomon | From Verona to Innsbruck – Raetic Epigraphic Documents as Landmarks of Waterway Transit in the Central Alps |
| 15:00-15:30 | Mali Skotheim | Wending the Watery Ways, Mask in Hand: Waterways and the Travel Routes of the Technitai of Dionysus |
| 15:30-16:00 | coffee | |
| 16:00-16:30 | Kathryn M. Hudson | Cosmology, Cartography, and Change: Water in Ancient Mexican Life and Thought |
| 16:30-17:00 | Closing remarks |